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Artist

John Forget

“...Forget creates experimental, documentary-based videos that incorporate camp sensibility and pop music reference as strategic devices to reveal identity and subjectivity. In Forget’s world, we become totally aware of the forms that conspire to process the subject – here, through the presentation and subversion of the tropes of interview and documentary – so much so, that a ‘form,’ ironically, becomes the salvation of what is 'real’. It is the hyper-realization, the over-determination, the contingency and contradiction of postmodernist ‘form’ – that is, camp – that centers our understanding of the subject”.Jean-Paul Kelly, Trinity Square Video Artist Spotlight Programme 2009.